This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
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2017
1853 posts
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Roadkill in the age of the autonomous car. What happens when we start thinking like algorithms? Hey, look at this remarkable new supernova discovery! Sometimes you find a dead grasshopper…
Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships
Perhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.
Loving America: Reading Carlos Bulosan with My Students
Can one love one’s country into a better version of itself? And can that love better the self?
Notable San Francisco: 11/8–11/14
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
A Zombie Existence: Fleur Jaeggy’s I Am the Brother of XX
Unlike clothing, which can disguise the state of the soul, a person’s eyes reveal the truth.
David Bowie’s Final Finale
Bowie is gone now. The Magic Shop, too. It’s all gone—New York City, too, in a way.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What is life but a Potemkin village? New things to be terrified of every day: the zombie viruses of climate change. Sup with this giant void in the Great Pyramid?…
It’s All Metaphorical: A Conversation with Laurette Folk
Laurette Folk discusses her new collection, Totem Beasts, the role of meditation and dreams in her work, and "seeking some heightened experience in the conscious world."
Album of the Week: Revelations by Shamir
"It’s not really that calculated anymore. I’m bearing my soul in these songs, and just giving it how it is."